Years ago one of my connections had privately revealed to me that the Obama
Administration had illegally wiretapped the Jamaican Prime Minister, during and
leading up to the Dudus extradition scandal, which I stated is illegal and
unethical. Then the scandal broke and news came forth that the Obama
Administration had indeed unlawfully listened into calls of then Prime Minister
Bruce Golding.

Edward Snowden

I do not agree with any head of state anywhere in the world illegally
wiretapping another. International law dictates that one cannot wiretap a person
in a foreign nation without the expressed consent of the justice department of
said nation, as it will violate the laws of the country in question. No justice
department in the world is going to grant another nation the legal right to
wiretap their head of state. It's just not done. When such an international
incident occurs and it does happen, there is no legal foundation for such
conduct.

Obama needs to clean up the NSA and its sister agency the FBI. The expansive,
illegal surveillance of Americans and foreigners is costing America a fortune,
which could be better used to help the poor and homeless, send many American
students to university on scholarship, repair roads and bridges, restore great
grant programs at the Small Business Association and give financial subsidies to
Americans seeking to buy homes (those were great programs and the reason
homeownership and business ownership was so high during the Clinton years). This
would be a better use of the tens of billions of dollars per year the illegal
surveillance is costing the U.S. taxpayers.

The Judiciary Report does not oppose the use of legal wiretapping, GPS
tracking, bank account scanning and subpoenaing emails, files and documents of
lawbreakers, to aide the Justice Department in building and prosecuting cases
against real criminals, such as organized crime outfits, financial fraudsters
and those engaging in violence or sex crimes against members of the public.
However, illegally spying on millions of innocent Americans and citizens in
foreign countries is unlawful domestically and internationally.